tech policy
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Huzzah, Now ISPs Can’t Charge Rental Fees for Your Own Dang Modem
If you’ve ever wondered why you still have to pay your internet provider rental fees for a modem even after you bought it, I have some good news: A new U.S. law is shutting that shit down from here on out.
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Oracle’s Bid for TikTok Is Down to the Wire and Also a Huge Mess
The Trump administration’s efforts to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling its U.S. subsidiary TikTok to an American company are closing in, with enterprise software giant Oracle attempting to get regulators to clear a deal. Unsurprisingly, everyone involved is really making a garbage fire out of it.
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Zuck: Would These Hips Lie… About a Secret Deal With Trump?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is mostly in the news today for an unflattering photograph of him taken while surfing, slathered in Marilyn Manson-esque levels of sunscreen paired with an unsettlingly perky arse. In what may well have been an attempt to change Google results for his name to anything else, Zuckerberg somehow managed to switch…
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Buckle Up, Zuck, Now Joe Biden Is Gonna Petition the Heck Out of You
In January 2020, former vice president and likely Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden lie in ads and “amplifying” factually dubious information.